The rich history of ancient Egypt involves power struggles, amazing feats of engineering, advances in writing and art, and ...

While it is common to see cats in modern households, cats are among the most recently domesticated animals. Archaeological ...

The Eye of Horus is frequently found in ancient Egyptian burials, particularly on wedjat amulets.

Ancient Egyptians worshipped many different gods and goddesses. The most important ones included Osiris (the god of the underworld who was later resurrected), Amun-Ra (the god of the sun), Isis ...

"People would make devotional offerings in the form of animals as mummies. This would have more potency as a blood sacrifice, ...

Perfumes had captivated the ancient Greeks and through many sources, we can still venture through the world of perfumes in ...

Archaeologists have discovered the large limestone burial chamber of an unidentified ancient Egyptian pharaoh near the city ...

They fought the Egyptians, sacked Babylon, and built elaborate cities. Then the Hittites vanished. Today, new discoveries are ...

The discovery has been described as a “geometric miracle” and could finally lead to some answers about one of Ancient Egypt’s ...

On an Egyptian desert rock ridge west of Alexandria and between the Mediterranean sea and Lake Mariout is Kom el-Nugus, an ...

The discovery of artifacts near the sarcophagus of Tutankhamun may be the oldest known evidence of a ritual known as the ...

The discovery sheds some light on a "lost" dynasty of pharaohs who ruled during a little-understood time in ancient Egypt's long history.